Charles de gaulle books10/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() President Sarkozy has much to learn from this tale' Andrew Hussey, Observer 'Most readable and sensible judgments' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Monumental. brilliant' Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph 'A fine book' Ben Macintyre, the Times 'The best English-language biography of de Gaulle' Scotsman 'Magisterial' Economist 'Finely nuanced and highly readable. most enjoyable' -Don Morrison, Financial Times 'Magisterial' Economist 'A compelling portrait' Literary Review 'A compelling portrait' Literary Review July Issue 'Skilful and subtle. President Sarkozy has much to learn from this tale' -Andrew Hussey, Observer 'Most readable and sensible judgments' -Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Monumental. brilliant' Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph 'A fine book' Ben Macintyre, the Times 'The best English-language biography of de Gaulle' -Scotsman 'Finely nuanced and highly readable. Written with terrific verve and narrative skill, and yet rigorous and detailed, it brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and astute analysis. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. A grand visionary with a vast geo-political grasp and elephantine memory, he was also a supreme tactician with a taste for secrecy and the ability to out-flank opponents. Though insisting on discipline and loyalty from others, he was a great rebel. ![]() Le General, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if carved from a single monumental block, but was, in fact, extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. But he personified many of the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world - its pride in itself, its intransigence, its historical and cultural heritage and its quasi-religious belief in the state. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who had never been elected to anything. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. Print The General : Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved
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